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Speaker's Program for AIChE NorCal
Helping out with the themes for this year's programs, a chance to share knowledge, skills, and provide a venue to help chemical engineers practice public speaking and presentation skills.
The themes this year are:
(I) Career Development in Chemical Engineering
What career development strategies do ChemEs use to advance their professional growth?
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Socialize (a bit).
Getting the chance to get some social media chatter going among NorCal chemical engineering young professionals (YPs).
You can check out our brand new (read: as of this writing mostly sparse) social media presence at:
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Starting Again By the Sea
Looking forward to working on a few areas directly tied to my chemical engineering roots alongside the Northern California AIChE membership. How can anyone not be inspired by a sunset view of the San Francisco Bay?
It's nice to come home.
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Villanova Student NSPE Chapter Dinner
Was a great experience to be invited to speak at Villanova recently. The event was hosted by the Pennsylvania State Society of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the NSPE Student Section of Villanova University. Thanks to Dr. Peter Staffeld as the faculty leader for the student chapter, Mike Fischer from the Valley Forge Chapter ( Read more... ) -
"The Highest Calling in Engineering"
Reposting here from the Mentoring Blog of the National Society of Professional Engineers where former president Bernie Berson, PE talks about the virtues and sense of personal drive and legal and moral responsibility bestowed upon engineers that have attained state level licensure. From working with Bernie in the past on the NSPE Mentoring Task ( Read more... ) -
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Divers, Springboards, and the Inductive Leap
In a recent road trip to Monterey and Carmel, California, just an iPad's Frisbee toss from Palo Alto, driving through the once-upon-a-startup companies that lined the highways of Silicon Valley brought to mind a passage from John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday as I brunched in the shadow of Yahoo across the ( Read more... ) -
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The Grand Challenges of Engineering
While the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium have received quite a bit of spotlight with the size of the prize, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has also been promoting engineering's own Fourteen Grand Challenges of Engineering".
In no particular order, they are:
-Make Solar Energy Economical
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Two Distinct Kinds of Proficiency
"Every systematic science, the humblest and the noblest alike, seems to admit of two distinct kinds of proficiency; one which is referred to as scientific knowledge of the topic, while the other is a kind of educational familiarity with it. For an educated individual should be able to form a fair off-hand judgment as to the effectiveness or ( Read more... ) -
Young Engineers Blog
Was recently asked to write the Young Engineers blog for the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE ( Read more... )
